The Accidental Launch Countdown

The political compass, but make it nerdy . This chart perfectly maps the tech world's tribal warfare onto a Freedom-Proprietary and Tradition-Disruption grid. In the top-left, we've got the "Libredev" quadrant where bearded Unix wizards and Emacs cultists fight for software freedom while clinging to technologies older than most junior devs. Think GNU/Linux (yes, you must call it that) and C++ codebases that haven't been refactored since 1997. Top-right "Cogdev" is where Microsoft and corporate tech lives - traditional, enterprise-y, and about as free as a subscription service. These are the folks who think Visual Studio is lightweight and unironically use the phrase "synergistic business solutions." Bottom-right "Soydev" quadrant is where you'll find Apple fanboys and JavaScript framework enthusiasts who will rebuild their entire tech stack every six months because some Medium article told them to. They're disrupting the industry by reinventing the wheel with more dependencies. And finally, bottom-left "Hypedev" - home of Rust evangelists and blockchain bros who won't stop talking about how their technology will save humanity. They're all about disruption and freedom, just don't mention that their revolutionary project is still in beta after 5 years.

Content And the best part about using Linux: No viruses! Double Click See? Nothing happe.. Look at this, a website downloaded a malicious exe on my machine Wine is launching

Content Why someone would use as a first programming language: Python: For it's simple syntax Java: To learn basic computer science concepts C: See Java BASIC: They were in cryogenic storage since 1968 Bash: To make themselves feel productive Git: To actually, why would someone use Git as their FIRST language? HTML: To make themselves feel like a programmer CSS: To make themselves feel like a cooler programmer JavaScript: They have a really good idea for a website TypeScript: They have a REALLY good idea for a website Brainfuck: They want to gain new respect for Alan Turing C: Meth addict that needs the same speed from their language C: Cocaine addict that needs the same speed from their language Carbon: To get a head-start on the 10-year job requirement PHP: Masochism Fortran: Masochism but with a better paycheck Rust: Cult induction Microsoft Excel: To feel like a geek without being a programmer Game of Life: Ooh... pretty squares.

Content ferlatte 12 days ago The Second Life updater just downloaded the updater.exe from the website and ran it with no validation. One day, that returned a 404. Cool thing about Win32: if you try to run an EXE, Windows checks to see if it's a valid format (PE). If it's not, it assumes that it's a COM: 16 bit 86 instructions, no header, no validation. The 404 page, when interpreted as 86 bytecode, effectively opened the LPT DOS device and wrote garbage into it. Windows would map that into your actual printer driver in some cases if you had a printer connected directly to your computer. Cheap inkjet printers don't do any validation, so they would freak out, spew paper, and in one case, physically break.

1989: "Imagine the technological marvels we'll create with computers in 30 years!" 2020: "So I've simulated 1,000 T-Rexes fighting 80,000 chickens. For science." Ah yes, the pinnacle of computing power - dinosaur-poultry warfare. Somewhere in a server farm, a CPU is thinking, "I was designed to cure cancer, but here we are."

The true wisdom of the ages isn't passed down in ancient texts—it's shared through keyboard shortcuts. Nothing says "I care about your future" like teaching someone to access their clipboard history with Win+V. That moment when you realize your entire programming career could've been saved from countless "where did I copy that snippet from?" panic attacks. The real parental guidance we needed wasn't about life choices or financial planning, but about how to recover that perfect code snippet you copied 5 items ago. The clipboard history feature might just be the most underutilized lifesaver in Windows—right up there with actually reading error messages.